Louvre acquires rare painting old woman found over stove By . Hannah Frishberg. Published Nov. 8, 2023, 6:35 p.m. ET. The painting "Christ Mocked," was found back in 2019.

When we admire great works of art, we rarely think about who the people depicted on the paintings are. Behind some famous paintings are real lives — romantic, dramatic or even exciting. We decided ...

In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the ...

For more than a century, a portrait of a mystery woman lay hidden beneath a painting from Pablo Picasso’s famed Blue Period. Now, with the help of advanced imaging technology, conservators at ...

A portrait of a mystery woman was found beneath Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

Artists Jennifer Carvalho Brings the Women of Old Master Paintings to Life—With a Haunting Twist. In her new solo exhibition "Ghost" at Toronto's Franz Kaka, Jennifer Carvalho merges influences ...

In works from her Biblical Domestic (2021–2024) and Menstrual Hystery (2024) series, Lightman trades halos for housework, and ...

Artist and educator Gabbe Grodin is pictured in her home studio in San Antonio, TX, on Oct. 19, 2022. Grodin’s artistic pursuits includes a series of oil paintings entitled “Wonderful Old ...

Artist Citra Sasmita imagines a world populated entirely by women in her momentous painted scrolls, part of a new exhibition at London’s Barbican. The contemporary artworks are a twist on ...

Faint images of a women in Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto.". The Courtauld/Facebook “We have long suspected another painting lay behind the portrait,” he continued.